John Frewen-Turner
John Frewen-Turner (1 August 1755 – 1 February 1829)[1] was an English landowner and politician.[2]
Life
Turner was born John Frewen in Sapcote, Leicestershire, the son of the Rev Thomas and Esther née Simpkin Frewen and educated at Rugby School and Queen's College, Oxford, where he was awarded BA in 1778.[3]
He assumed the arms and surname of the Turner family when he inherited their Leicestershire estate in 1791.
In 1779 he was admitted to the Middle Temple and served as High Sheriff of Leicestershire for 1791. He became Lieutenant-Colonel of Leicestershire Yeomanry and MP for Athlone, Westmeath from 1807 to 1812.
He died at Coventry in 1829. He had married in 1808 Eleanor Clark, the sister of the writer and Parisian salon hostess Mary Mohl and the daughter of Charles Clark of Westminster. Mary would frequently stay with them at their home in Cold Overton.[4] They were the parents of politician Charles Frewen.
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 3)
- ↑ Burke, Sir Bernard (1852). A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852. Colburn and Co. p. 450.
- ↑ "xxx". Retrieved 12 May 2011.
- ↑ Patrick Waddington, ‘Mohl , Mary Elizabeth (1793–1883)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2007 accessed 5 February 2015
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Frewen-Turner
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Henry Wellesley |
Member of Parliament for Athlone 1807 – 1812 |
Succeeded by John Wilson Croker |